GOOGLE CLASSROOM AS AN INTERACTIVE PLATFORM FOR CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
GOOGLE CLASSROOM AS AN INTERACTIVE PLATFORM FOR CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION
Introduction
Google Classroom is a free web service, which is developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. Classroom is a free suite of productivity tools that includes email, documents, and storage. Classroom was designed collaboratively with teachers to help them save time, keep classes organized, and improve communication with students. Google Classroom makes teaching more productive and meaningful by streamlining assignments, boosting collaboration, and fostering communication. Educators can create classes, distribute assignments, send feedback, and see everything in one place. Classroom also seamlessly integrates with other Google tools like Google Docs and Drive
Need and Significance of Google Class Room
Easy setup: Teachers can set up a class, invite students and co-teachers. On the Class work page, they can share information—assignments, questions, and materials.
Saves time and paper work: Teachers can create classes, distribute assignments, communicate, and stay organized, all in one place.
Better organization: Students can see assignments on the To-do page, in the class stream, or on the class calendar. All class materials are automatically filed into Google Drive folders.
Enhanced communication and feedback: Teachers can create assignments, send announcements, and instantly start class discussions. Students can share resources with each other and interact in the class stream or by email. Teachers can also quickly see who has or hasn't completed the work, and give direct, real-time feedback and grades.
Works with apps you use: Classroom works with Google Docs, Calendar, Gmail, Drive, and Forms.
Affordable and secure: Classroom is free for schools, nonprofits, and individuals Classroom contains no ads and no one ever uses your content.
General Applications
Teachers: Create and manage classes, assignments, and grades. Give direct, real-time feedback and grades.
Students: Track class work and materials. Share resources and interact in the class stream or by email. Submit assignments. Get feedback and grades.
Guardians: Get an email summary of their student’s work. This summary includes information about missing work, upcoming assignments, and class activity.(Note: Guardians can’t sign in to Classroom directly. They need to receive email summaries through another account.)
Administrators: Create, view, or delete any class in their domain.Add or remove students and teachers from classes. View work in all classes in their domain
Supported browsers and devices
You can access Classroom using the web on a computer with any browser, such as Chrome, Firefox®, Internet Explorer®, or Safari®. In general, Classroom supports major browser releases on a continual basis. Classroom is also available for Android and Apple® iOS® mobile devices.
Features
Google has already made a large impact on education with its Google Apps for Education (GAFE), which includes Google Docs, Google Spreadsheets, Google Calendars, and a diverse array of other apps easily utilized by schools. Now Google is introducing Google Classroom, a technology in the classroom app designed to provide a single dashboard to unify instructors’ use of other Google apps. Google Classroom’s purpose is to facilitate paperless communication between teachers and students and streamline educational workflow. Classroom allows teachers to create classes, post assignments, organize folders, and view work in real-time. One of the best features is that Classroom is fully integrated with all other Google apps, so students and teachers can share information with one another instantaneously instead of having to hop through various hurdles to submit work. This simplifies certain functions in apps. Students can begin their work with just one click, by viewing the assignment then opening a Google Doc. When they do this, teachers have a real-time view into student progress and can offer feedback along the way. Students each have their own Google Drive folder that allows students and teachers perpetual access to previous work, and educators can even assign grades within Classroom.
Save teachers time
Add students easily: Students can join a class with a code, giving you more time to teach.
Manage multiple classes: Reuse existing announcements, assignments, or questions from another class. Share posts across multiple classes, and archive classes for future reference.
Teach together: Co-teach a course with up to 20 other instructors.
Enrich assignments: Add materials to your assignments, such as YouTube videos, a Google Forms survey, PDFs, and other items from Google Drive. Teachers and students can highlight, notate, and draw on documents and PDFs in the Classroom mobile app.
One-click worksheets: Attach a worksheet to an assignment and create a copy for each student with a click.
Customize assignments: Add grade categories, due dates, point values, and topics to the assignments you create.
Individual assignments: Teachers can post work and announcements to individual students in a class.
Prepare in advance: Draft announcements, assignments, and questions, or schedule them to post at a certain time.
Quick exit-tickets and polling: Post a question to students, then view results within Classroom.
Customize your class graphics: Change the default color or theme for your class.
Keep resources in one place: Create a topic for key resources, so students can always access materials, such as a sign-up sheet for office hours, a class syllabus, or an online text.
Keep students organized: Classroom creates a Google Calendar for each class and updates the calendar with work and due dates. Students can also view upcoming work with a click.
Keep teachers organized: Review student work, including assignments, questions, grades, and previous comments. View work by one or all classes, and sort by what needs reviewing.
Keep classes organized: Teachers can organize the class work page by creating topics that can be easily reordered.
Customize grading: Choose a grading system, create grade categories, and see all your grading for a class on the Grades page.
Grade quickly and easily: Sort students, see who's turned in work, add feedback, draft grades to share later, or return graded work to all students with a click. Plus, add annotations and visual feedback to student work in the Classroom mobile app.
Transfer grades: Export final grades to Google Sheets file for upload elsewhere. You can also push grades directly from Classroom to your student information system (SIS) if you participate in the beta program.
Integrate other favorite teaching tools: Synchronous your existing Classroom classes with partner applications.
Communicate and collaborate
Access anytime, anywhere: Access Classroom 24/7 on the web or via the Android and iOS Classroom mobile apps.
Real-time feedback: View, comment, and edit student work in real time in the Docs grading tool. Annotate student work in the Classroom mobile app.
Create class discussions: On the Stream page, post announcements, engage students in question-driven discussions, encourage them to reply to classmates, and move important topics to the top.
Manage class discussions: Control who can post to the Stream page, and mute individual students from posting or commenting.
Share content: Share links, videos, and images from websites to Classroom with one click in the Share to Classroom extension.
Push content to students’ screens: Push websites instantly to a class with the Share to Classroom extension. Students can also share their screen with their teacher.
Communicate with guardians: Teachers in any G Suite domain can invite parents and guardians to sign up for email summaries that include a student's upcoming or missing work.
Educational Implications
If you’re still largely using paper for materials and assignments, then Google Classroom offers an easy-to-use, entry-level step into making your class more digital. Not only does it help with student organization by putting all assignments and work in one safe place, but it also helps teachers too. Creating, copying, assigning, supervising, collecting, grading, recording, and returning work to students is a process requiring a great deal of time and steps.
Google Classroom simplifies these tasks by combining, eliminating, or organizing them. Google Classroom will undoubtedly save time and trouble for teachers grading student work.
Google Classroom is additionally designed for teachers and students to share ideas and resources with one another. Teachers and students can participate in online Classroom discussions, and everyone can post links to informative resources within discussions or other sharing mechanisms.
Classroom exists on a website platform, though students using iPads can easily log into Google Classroom and seamlessly pull in their work from other Google apps.
Classroom is not a production tool, but rather a management tool; so it merely requires you and students to learn how to post information and documents and how to locate the information you want on it. If your students already have experience using other Google apps, like Docs or Spreadsheets, then they are already set for using Classrooms
With Classroom, Google is entering an already competitive market with effective learning management systems. Where it has the most leverage is in its seamless integration with its own apps. This allows extremely easy access for students and teachers to one another’s work, and reduces many of the steps previously necessary for sharing information.
Another advantage is that products created with Google apps are designed for sharing, and that sharing may more easily take place in Google Classroom than other more “closed system” management software that allows students to put work it, but not spread it out.
Conclusion
In short, Google Classroom offers a one-stop platform for facilitating digital production, workflow, and communication between teachers and students. Like other Google apps, it is available for free to schools, has no ads, and never uses student or teacher content for advertising purposes.
Reference:
https://www.teachhub.com/technology-classroom-look-google-classroom
https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6376881?hl=en
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